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Houston, September 13

India stated it has “strongly” taken up the case of its nationwide Jaahnavi Kandula with authorities within the US, following the discharge of a bodycam video through which a cop is heard joking and laughing concerning the Indian scholar’s dying by a police patrol automobile this 12 months.

In the transient clip, Seattle Police Officers’ Guild Vice President Daniel Auderer is seen driving and could be heard saying, “she had limited value”, in a name with the guild’s president, Mike Solan, The Seattle Times reported this week.

The Consulate General of India in San Francisco on Wednesday termed the incident as “deeply troubling”.

Meanwhile, a Seattle police watchdog company has launched an investigation after bodycam footage emerged of a police officer joking concerning the dying of a 23-year-old Indian scholar after she was struck by a rushing police patrol automobile earlier this 12 months, media stories stated.

Jaahnavi Kandula was killed in January after she was struck by a police automobile pushed by Officer Kevin Dave. He was driving 74 mph (greater than 119 kmph) on the best way to a report of an overdose, a newspaper reported on Monday.

In bodycam footage launched on Monday by the Seattle Police Department, Officer Daniel Auderer laughed concerning the lethal crash and dismissed any implication Dave could be at fault or {that a} felony investigation was crucial.

In the clip, Auderer, the vice-president of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, was on a name with the guild’s president, Mike Solan. He laughed a number of occasions, saying at one level, “Yeah, just write a cheque.” “Eleven thousand dollars. She was 26 anyway,” Auderer stated within the video, misstating Kandula’s age.

“She had limited value,” he was quoted as saying.

Auderer stated Dave’s automobile had been “going 50” and that “that’s not out of control”, a information company reported.

A police investigation report referred to prosecutors for evaluation final month stated that Dave had been driving at 74 mph, and Kandula from Andhra Pradesh was thrown greater than 100 toes after the affect. “That’s not reckless for a trained driver,” Auderer stated within the video, including he doesn’t imagine “she was thrown 40 feet either”, the report stated. — PTI

Cop shoots 2 Black teenagers

Albany (US): New York’s legal professional normal launched a video on Tuesday of a county sheriff’s deputy, John Rosello, fatally capturing two Black youngsters in a fleeing automobile, elevating questions on whether or not the officer wanted to make use of lethal power to keep away from being run over.

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